En "faveur de Linux" ?
Attendez je corrige le titre : Microsoft exploite de plus en plus Linux en sa faveur pour faire de l'IA parceque sous Windows c'est pas assez performant et ça ne tourne pas ailleurs que sur des puces x86 (et y'a de l'ARM partout ossskour).
Et aussi on fait encore plus de WSL pour attirer les développeurs, parce qu'on sait que notre Powershell et notre noyau c'est tout pourri, aucun dev n'en veut et de toute façon tous les outils de dev sérieux sont sous Linux.

Effectivement : L'avenir de Microsoft, c'est Linux.

En fait, Microsoft est en train de transformer Windows en un simple lanceur (WSL, noyau, shell, conteneurs, outils de dévelopement...).  On se demande encore pourquoi on a besoin de Windows pour lancer ces choses.
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En attendant sa grande conférence du mois de juin, Microsoft dévoile la première vague de jeux qui intégreront le Xbox Game Pass ces jours-ci.

Donc avec Solara - destiné à remplacer Windows - Microsoft annonce comment il voit l'avenir de ses systèmes d'exploitation.
Solara qui est basé sur Android AOSP.
Donc Linux.

Donc Microsoft annonce fièrement que l'avenir de Microsoft, c'est Linux.
CQFD.
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Microsoft's Build developer conference kicked off today, and as with almost everything the company has done in the last few years, Microsoft's opening keynote focused overwhelmingly on AI and other closely related technologies. [...] On the hardware front, we didn't get any updates for existing Surface devices (not counting yesterday's Surface Laptop Ultra announcement), but we did get something new: the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is "a compact developer PC" built around Nvidia's new RTX Spark chip with up to 128GB of built-in memory. The Dev Box looks a little like a cartoon anvil or piano fell onto an Xbox Series X and flattened it. Its aluminum casing was designed "to double as a heatsink," and its preloaded version of Windows 11 Pro will include a "purposeful" set of developer-centric default settings and preinstalled tools. This is a follow-up of sorts to the Windows Dev Kit 2023, also known as "Project Volterra." This Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3-powered PC was essentially the system board from a Surface Pro tablet stuffed into a plastic box, and it was introduced alongside Arm-native versions of several Microsoft developer tools. It helped to set the stage for the Arm-based flagship Surface devices that launched the next year, which benefitted from a better and faster x86-to-Arm code translation technology called Prism and a greater number of Arm-native third-party apps that didn't need to be translated in the first place. Microsoft didn't announce pricing or specific specs for the RTX Spark Dev Box, but you can probably expect it to cost quite a bit more than the $600 that Project Volterra did. Hopefully, Microsoft can keep the price at least somewhat lower than the $4,699 asking price for Nvidia's similarly specced DGX Spark box. On the software side, several developer-centric changes are coming to Windows 11, particularly for users of the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). Microsoft is introducing a Windows-native version of the coreutils command line tools, so that commands or scripts made for Linux work within Windows and the other way around; the ability to run WSL inside of containers, said to be arriving in "the coming months"; and something called Windows Developer Configurations that uses the WinGet tool to quickly set up "a distraction-free dev environment with VS Code, GitHub Copilot, WSL, PowerShell 7 and developer-optimized settings with one command on any Windows 11 device." Microsoft also introduced Microsoft Execution Containers (MXC), as "enterprise-grade sandboxed environments" that let AI agents like OpenClaw operate on Windows without getting unrestricted access to the whole system. In theory, MXC could let organizations enforce agent-specific limits, such as blocking access to personal accounts, separating work and personal data, or requiring permission before deleting files. The MXC GitHub repo also notes support for "multiple containment backends," meaning the same sandboxing concept could apply beyond AI agents to other plugins, tools, and workloads. Further reading: Microsoft Unveils Scout, an Autonomous AI Agent Built On OpenClaw

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À la conférence Build 2026, Satya Nadella a frappé fort en affirmant que ses futurs data centers IA ne consommeraient pas plus d'eau à l'année qu'un simple restaurant de quartier. Une promesse de circuit fermé qui cherche à rassurer face à la « soif » de l'IA générative.

À la conférence Build 2026, Satya Nadella a frappé fort en affirmant que ses futurs data centers IA ne consommeraient pas plus d'eau à l'année qu'un simple restaurant de quartier. Une promesse de circuit fermé qui cherche à rassurer face à la « soif » de l'IA générative.

Ok donc Microsoft n'a pas absolument pas abandonné son projet de système entier "AI first". Ils annoncent là leur intention de s'éloigner du modèle "système d'exploitation et applications" pour passer à un système entièrement piloté par des "agents IA".
Donc il ne fallait effectivement pas croire aux promesses d'un Windows 11 enfin tourné vers les désirs des utilisateurs : Ce n'est pas du tout le projet de Microsoft.
FUYEZ !

Édit : ah oui , et Microsoft a l'intention de vous manipuler psychologiquement pour vous rendre accro à l'agent: https://archive.ph/1jrGH
(Copie de l'article : https://app.wallabag.it/share/6a1fcf5fa4b6f3.86041452)

Voir ces articles en français:
https://next.ink/240685/projet-solara-microsoft-veut-remplacer-la-bonne-vieille-informatique-par-des-agents-ia/
https://next.ink/240615/microsoft-veut-rendre-les-utilisateurs-accros-a-son-agent-ia-scout/

Le gag étant que Microsoft Solara est basé... sur Android AOSP, donc Linux.
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Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac will reportedly drop into "reduced functionality mode" on July 13, 2026, when a license-validation certificate expires, leaving perpetually licensed apps able to open files but not edit or save them. Slashdot reader joshuark shares a report from OSnews: "Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion (2026) is a scheduled remote degradation of perpetually-licensed Microsoft Office software for macOS and iOS, set for July 13, 2026 when a license-validation certificate used by the Office apps expires," reports the Consumer Rights Wiki. "After Office 2019 for Mac reached end of support in October 2023, Microsoft assured customers their installed apps would 'continue to function.' The July 13, 2026 conversion instead drops the apps into a Microsoft-defined 'reduced functionality mode,' in which files can be opened and viewed but not edited or saved. By May 30, 2026, the original 2023 end-of-support page had been re-dated and rewritten on Microsoft's site; the 'continue to function' clause was removed." Microsoft's advice to the users they're stealing from is to keep using the applications as mere viewers, switch to the free Office 365 web applications, pay for a 365 subscription, or buy a brand new regular copy of Office 2024. None of these make any sense, and clearly, all of this should be illegal, but it's not because the software industry is a clown show.

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Microsoft has unveiled Scout, an experimental always-on AI "autopilot" agent for Microsoft 365 that can operate across Teams, Outlook, OneDrive, SharePoint, calendars, contacts, browsers, and external apps via MCP. "Autopilots stay active in the background, understand how work gets done across your apps and systems, and take action without needing to be prompted each time," said Omar Shahine, a Microsoft veteran who recently announced he is leading a new team to bring OpenClaw-based personal assistants to Microsoft 365 apps. Computerworld reports: Shahine said Scout can reduce mundane tasks that office workers face, such as coordinating and scheduling meeting times with colleagues, or blocking times in a user's calendar based on upcoming work commitments. "It can also spot risks, like stalled decisions, so you can address them before they become blockers," he said. It's available as an "experimental release" to customers of the company's Frontier program, Microsoft said, and will require Intune policy configuration and "opt-in attestation." [...] It's not clear whether Scout will be included in Microsoft 365 Copilot subscriptions or charged separately. Microsoft did not immediately provide additional details about pricing.

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Microsoft a présenté Scout, un agent d’IA autonome et toujours actif intégré à l'écosystème Windows. Capable de gérer de manière proactive vos réunions et vos tâches sur Teams et Outlook sans aucune commande manuelle, cet assistant propulsé par OpenClaw et Work IQ est disponible dès à présent pour les clients du programme Frontier.

À l’occasion de sa conférence Build 2026, Microsoft a dévoilé une famille de sept nouveaux modèles d'IA développés en interne. Cette nouvelle gamme s'étend notamment de la génération d'images à la gestion de la voix.

Présentée à l'occasion de Microsoft Build, la puce quantique Majorana 2 marque une nouvelle étape dans la feuille de route quantique de Microsoft. Au point que l'entreprise estime désormais pouvoir atteindre un ordinateur quantique à grande échelle dès 2029.

Connecter votre cravate ou votre porte-clé à une IA, le tout sans Windows ? C'est la promesse du Projet Solara, une plateforme « chip-to-cloud » sous Android dévoilée par Microsoft pour infuser intelligemment nos objets du quotidien, même sans écran.

Le 2 juin, Microsoft a réuni les développeurs du monde entier à San Francisco pour sa grande conférence annuelle, la Microsoft Build 2026. Le géant du logiciel a dévoilé ses propres modèles d'IA, les MAI conçus sans OpenAI, son agent autonome Microsoft Scout et le projet Solara, une plateforme pour connecter n'importe quel objet à l'intelligence artificielle. Une keynote qui confirme l'ambition de Microsoft : devenir incontournable dans le monde dominé par l'IA générative.

Microsoft vient d'annoncer la machine la plus ambitieuse de l'histoire de sa gamme Surface : le Surface Laptop Ultra. Un PC portable haut de gamme avec un objectif clair : détrôner le MacBook Pro d'Apple et offrir à Windows une vraie alternative puissante et endurante. Cet ordinateur sera un des premiers avec une puce Nvidia RTX Spark.

Oh ben tiens, une licence perpétuelle qui n'est pas perpétuelle !
Microsoft a donc menti.

Voir aussi : https://www.lesnumeriques.com/appli-logiciel/acheter-un-logiciel-n-a-plus-de-sens-microsoft-bloquera-office-2019-a-distance-le-13-juillet-n256813.html
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Selon un article publié par The Verge à la mi-mai 2026, Microsoft aurait commencé à annuler la plupart de ses licences Claude Code. D’après des sources internes citées par le média américain, l’entreprise estimerait que certains usages d’agents IA coûtent désormais plus cher que le travail humain.

"For months, scammers have been taking advantage of a loophole that allows them to send spammy emails from an internal Microsoft email address typically used for sending legitimate account alerts," TechCrunch reports: [The scammers] have been able to set up new Microsoft accounts as if they are new customers and use that access to send out emails purportedly from the tech giant, potentially tricking people into thinking these emails are genuine... Last week, I received several, similarly structured emails containing subject lines and web links to scammy sites from Microsoft across different email accounts. These crudely made emails were sent from msonlineservicesteam@microsoftonline.com, an email account that Microsoft uses to send important notifications to users, such as two-factor authentication codes and other critical alerts about their online account. Some of these emails' subject lines resembled official emails that would alert users to fraudulent transactions, while other emails claimed to have a private message waiting for the recipient at a web address mentioned in the email body. In a social post on Tuesday, anti-spam nonprofit The Spamhaus Project said it had also seen Microsoft's account notification email address being abused to send spam and that the activity dated back "several months." A PR representative told TechCrunch that Microsoft was "actively investigating" and "taking action against these phishing reports to help keep customers protected," with measures that include "removing accounts that violate our Terms of Use" and "further strengthening our detection and blocking mechanisms." TechCrunch suggests the issue may not be limited to Microsoft. "Other users commenting on social media say that other companies' email addresses are also being used to send out spam."

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Une faille de "privilege escalation" dans Windows.
Déjà signalée et censée avoir été corrigée par Microsoft... en DÉCEMBRE 2020.
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